Abstract:
Scientists use the Regional Air Quality Modeling System (RAQMS) computer model to predict air quality around the globe. RAQMS has been designed to address the atmospheric chemistry modeling needs for NASA's Earth Science Enterprise science missions and to prototype future NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) operational air quality ... prediction systems. It is a portable, global to regional scale meteorological and chemical computer modeling system. RAQMS assimilates remote and in-situ observations of atmospheric chemical composition to predict the distribution of atmospheric trace gases (air quality) within any region of the Earth. The Global Climate and Environmental Quality area of Langley's Creativity and Innovation initiative supports RAQMS.